August – Sam’s notebook: contains the title of Joseph C. Lincoln’s book, Cape Cod Ballads and Other Verse, by Joe Lincoln (1902), and a stanza from the poem [Gribben: 410: NB 46 TS 33]

“Italian With Grammar” ran in the Aug. issue of Harper’s Monthly [Camfield’s bibliog.].

The Plasmon Co. of America was nearly insolvent. John Hays Hammond was now the general manager of the company and took steps to revive things. From a 1910 decision on ensuing lawsuits:

To aid it, the defendant [Hammond] loaned it the sum of $10,000, to be repaid in thirty days, and took as security therefore a mortgage on all its property and assets. The mortgage was not authorized or ratified by the stockholders. The condition of the company did not improve. As is usual, lack of success bred dissension. The English company, the largest stockholder in the American company, protested against the mortgage. The defendant proposed a plan to reorganize the company and put in additional capital. That plan did not meet the approval of the other stockholders and the controversy became acute. Finally, at a stockholders’ meeting, on September 1 , 1904, a new board of directors was elected [Report of Cases Vol. 187 (1910): Ashcroft v. Hammond 491].

Sam sent an undated postcard picturing the Flatiron (Fuller) Building (see insert), which had been completed in 1902, to Hélène Elisabeth Picard. “I was thinking of securing this as a winter residence, but had to give up the idea, because the rent was higher than the house. SLC (C.S.)” [MTP]. Note: this is the likely year for such a note, but may have come any time after Sam signed the lease for “the house” at 21 Fifth Ave. on Aug. 17.